i'm richard lui in for chris jansing. let the 2016 speculation begin. what did they talk about? did either one ask the other about a run for president? this comes after the former secretary of state had lunch with her old boss, president barack obama. they dined al fresco. according to a spokesman largely friendship and they wanted to get together because it's been a while. the last time was in may. the obama's had the clintons over for dinner at the white house. i want to bring in ruth and chris. ruth, start with you. to be a fly on the wall, right, between hillary clinton and joe biden. if we were to be there who

brings up running for president, first? no you. no you. >> isn't that the interesting and mostdelicate question? my guess is the conversation did not come up. >> how could it? >> who is going to bring it up, right? >> joe. >> somebody has to go first. with the vice president, you never know with biden because it's a really -- he tends so say what is on his mind. so he is much more apt to say, so, hillary, what do you think the deal is? because that one is so much the elephant in the room. >> that's right. >> how could it not come up? >> ruth, you got your money down on vice president joe biden. chris, your colleague at the national journal jill lawrence, great piece. i was reading through it. titled what is keeping women from getting presidential buzz? hillary clinton. so when you look at that dynamic here that of the former

secretary of state, is she overshadowing other women out like elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar and kristen gill la brands? >> when you look at the republican field generally you have vice president joe biden number two looking at a run for number one in 2016. you have hillary clinton, the former secretary of state. you had really big players on the democratic side who need to decide or take a pass before some of the smaller players like amy klobuchar and kristen gillibrand would get more ink. on the republican side it's a wide open field and freshman senators and got sworn in january like tes cruz and rand paul another freshman senator as well creating buzz there isn't that republican juggernaut in

the room. i think hillary clinton sucks a lot of air out of the campaign. >> doesn't it widen the market there if all were to be involved? >> it certainly widens the market. but in a market where there is limited attention and there is limited media attention and financial resources to raise money for presidential campaign, you really have to look at whether or not the big dogs are going to get in before they leave any table scraps for everyone else. >> limited amount of money is what you're saying there, chris. at the same time, ruth, the clintons are in the news for another reason. you've been watching this. connections to anthony weiner and weiner's wife, huma abedin is a long time clinton aide and a barrage of articles about her concern grows with abedin in clinton's world. and when the first scandal hit, i thought weiner was a creep. now it is clear he must be mentally ill as well that he has no respect for women including

his own wife. it's also clear, yet i can't help but blaming abedin for condoning this behavior and allowing the charade to continue. she also says in her article, abedin may want power as much as weiner does. when does this stop? how long can it go on? >> it's really, really painful to watch. painful for people who are friends of huma's. i don't know a lot of a friend of anthony weiner's. and painful for the public to watch. i wrote a column about this last week also and really did raise the question of whether huma abedin was an enabler or a hero or victim or what. i really worry about their child and they are both making decisions that do not seem to me to be in the best interests of their child. you look at these revelations and this behavior and you think this must stop. but, on the other hand, at this point, what is it that they have got to lose? >> it seems like weiner has

nothing to lose but his wife and his child at this moment. here is a little bit of sound from anthony weiner. take a listen. >> i am not terribly independence in what people who are not voters in the city of new york have to say. at the end of the day, the citizens of this city want someone to pay attention to their concerns, to the things they care about. they might have some curiousity about me or the other candidates and what is in our background but they want to know what is in their future. >> chris, the latest poll shows anthony weiner dropping to number four. what do you think here? is it the clinton -- could it be the clintons who could quietly say to him out of the race and it will happen here? >> i don't think even if the clintons were to put a bug in his ear to get out of the race, that weiner would listen. they have a distance long in the relationship. clintons have never been a big fan of anthony weiner and have accepted him into fold because

of huma. otherwise, not a lot of love loss there as you saw with anthony weiner. i don't think anybody can tell him to get out of the race at this point. it's in for a dime, in for a dollar for anthony weiner. a lot of people said when he made this run that he was trying to clear the decks of the baggage so that if he were to lose, he may have some kind of political future for another elected office and the way this has transpired for him, that may be really difficult. it was that the new york voters seemed willing to give somebody a second chance, but once that need for a third chance came out, you saw him go from running in first to running in fourth. i don't know that there is a lot of ability for him to make his way back up in the weeks that are left in that contest. >> not the trend he wants. chris and ruth, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> you bet. the president plans to make congressional republicans an offer they cannot refuse at a shop in chattanooga, today. he will cut corporate taxes in exchange for an investment in

job creation. joining me is congresswoman jan from illinois. we got a statement from john bay ner's office saying this grand bargain allows president obama to support president obama's position on taxes and president obama's position on spending while leaving small businesses and american families behind, end quote. that was part of the statement n there. >> it seems to me john boehner is consistent that there is no deal that the president could possibly offer him that is going to be acceptable to the republicans. and the irony saying that the president -- that the republicans want to help small businesses and families? that is absolutely not true. i was out on the street yesterday in new york with families, with people who are working for the fast food industry and making minimum wage and there is no way that those

families and the quarter of low wage workers are able to survive in this economy. the president is dedicated to ending this enormous income inequality that we have and the republicans are dedicated to maintaining it. >> you elude to that associated press report that came out yesterday. when it comes to the minimum wage, though, going up to $15 effectively doubling it those in small business and those in fast food are saying that will hilim the ability to hire people and perhaps increasing unemployment though. >> they have always said that. in fact, businesses said that when there was an effort to stop child labor, that it was going to be a serious problem for jobs and for the economy. this is just not true. when the minimum wage has gone up, it has not, in fact, affected jobs. i think this demand for $15 an hour -- you know what that adds up to, richard? it's about $31,000 a year. >> right. >> this is not lavish.

if you look at what the ceos of these companies are making, $3,000 an hour, if you add in the whole pay package, and then they have the nerve of saying, no, $15 is too much. $7.25 is right. >> representative, you're right. the $13,000 would not very much like in new york but in other places it might be quite adequate, depending on the number of children. not too republicans critical of the president. bernie sanders telling "the wall street journal" the president is not a fighter. do you think he is done an effective job pressing his case here when it comes specifically to his economic ideas, the middle class and the minimum wage? >> i certainly think that this campaign that he has engaged right now going city-by-city and talking to people and making his case and his pledge to dedicate every single minute of the remaining years that he has in

office, to doing this, i think it's real. >> we have seen messages in 2012 and 2011 coming from the president that didn't do well. >> you know, i really do think there is something different now. there is enormous organizing efforts going on among low wage workers and people who understand that the middle class is the engine of our economy as the president said. these are also voters and so, you know, the republicans are engaged in this politics of subtraction. you can't alienate every sector of our society and expect to win. so i really do think there's something different and dynamic going on in the country. >> as always, thank you for your time. congresswoman jan schakowsky. have a good one. >> you too. >> catch the president's speech on jobs and economy and have it here for you on msnbc at 2:00 eastern time. stick around for that.

at 1:00 this afternoon we will hear the verdict in the case of bradley manning. he arrived in court just about an hour ago. the army private is accused of the largest leak of classified information in u.s. history. nbc jim jim miklaszewski hat latest. >> he is accused of leaking classified documents to wiki leaks. his lures are arguing he did so as a whistle-blower because he wanted to reveal crimes and abuses by the u.s. military in conducting the war in iraq. he also admitted releasing the documents, in part, in hopes apparently to avoid more serious charges, but the judge in the case went ahead with the charges of aiding the enemy and of espionage which carry a total

life term if, in fact, he is convicted of those charges. now, legal experts say aiding the enemy is rarely invoked. one legal expert i talked to said the last time that was invoked is when a union soldier back during the civil war leaked information about troop movements to a newspaper in alexandria, virginia. he was eventually convicted of that charge. some legal experts believe that it will be difficult to prove the aiding the enemy charges, but if convicted of that and espionage, 24-year-old -- 25-year-old bradley manning is expected to spend the rest of his life in a military prison. >> jim miklaszewski, thank you so much. moments ago, we learned president obama will meet with israeli and palestinian negotiators. the meeting will happen at the white house this morning. this is the second day of face-to-face talks after six months of shuttle diplomacy by secretary of state kerry to

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groups. the pope on his flight back to rome was asked about the so-called gay lobby inside the vatican. he responded by saying, if a person is gay and seeks the lord and has good will, who am i to judge that person? "the new york times" called his comments revolutionary but new york's archbishop timothy dolan careful to say it's not a change in church teachings. >> it is, though, a change in tone. >> that on the "today" this morning. i'm joined by kate child grahams columnist at the national catholic reporter. we also have francis de bernardo of the new way ministry. pope benedict xvi described h e homosexuality acts.

in language, pope francis has made a shift here but would it lead to a change in doctrine or theology? >> i think what pope francis has done is open the door for a large conversation about homosexuality in the church and about the lives of ga ay and lesbian people and that is a conversation we have waited a long time for. and i think by setting the tone for that conversation, we are going to see some good advances in the future. >> what do you expect to see? what are those advances? >> i think that we are going to see less harmful rhetoric about gay and lesbian people. we are not going to hear the words evil and dangerous as much. and i think we are going to start to see some discussion about the human rights and the human designate of gay and

lesbian people which is something that we really want to see and that many catholics in the u.s. want to see. >> kate, i was looking at some of your writings how you talk about the challenge experiences. how do you think the pope's remarks here may affect the experience of future lbgt students in catholic churches and education? will they have a different experience than you did? >> i think that is the big question, right? what are the bishops, what are the united states bishops going to do with this change in tone? like colonel dolan said this morning, a change in tone is insignificant. anybody who has ever received an e-mail in all caps knows tone is important. and, you know, i think that the bishops historically have poured millions of dollars and certainly given their vocal support to very hateful, mean spirited anti-gay education and trickled down into the catholic

education. if t if. >> kate when you heard him use the word gay, not homosexual and unheard of before in such context coming from a pope, was that an all caps for you and for the lbgt community here like he was welcoming back that community to the church? >> as a gay catholic, it was important moment. i felt more included by the catholic hierarchy than i ever have, but i think that what we see in the pews is that catholics overwhelmingly support lbgt people and rights so i feel that love for my sisters and brothers in the catholic church and certainly in the progressive catholic community today and it's nice to hear it from our leaders. >> how do you expect him to handle now what have been gay sex scandals have rocked the church the recent decades here? do you see a change here?

>> i think the pope is not going to focus on the sec scandals as much as focusing on the real lives of gay and lesbian people which are impacted by the policies in the church and policies in the civil society. what i'm hoping is that the pope will use this opportunity to deal with real issues and not the sensational issues, because those are the ones that really matter for gay and lesbian lives. >> thank you both so much. a good conversation. north carolina governor has signed a controversial bill requiring abortion clinics to meet the same standards as outpatient surgical centers. critics argue that the change will force most of north carolina's 16 clinics to close. the governor who pledged not to approve any new abortion

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one said when you think about it, this is small bore stuff compared to the lynchings and shootings that happened 506 years ago. ultimately this is within our power to change. joining me now is democratic strategist and pollster marjorie and robert trainin. always great to see both of you. marjorie, is this small bore stuff as the president said? >> well, i think it's appropriate for the president to put it in context. it wasn't that long ago that african-americans trying to register to vote were told you can if you can guess how many bubbles there are in this bar of soap. so we have moofed a long way from that. i think a point the president made in that meeting that this is unimportant that the vote suppression movement going in a lot of states around the country, pennsylvania and north carolina and arizona and texas, is something that we should really be addressing. it's something that is really important. we should be making voting more

convenient. something that we want to encourage participation, not discourage participation and i think that is what he was talking about. >> robert, you had about a dozen activists in that meeting behind closed doors. what did you hear about how things went with regard to the ability and ease what they like to accomplish? >> marjorie's point was putting things in context and historical making sure that everyone knew exactly what the supreme court did. let's be clear about what the supreme court did. they said look, the onus is on you as the voter to be able to differentiate between whether or not you're being discriminated against and if you are, you need to alert the proper authorities. so i think what i heard from the president's remarks based on what i've read and based on what people told me that were in the room that the president said this is a big deal. quote/unquote, this is a step back. however, the onus again is on us to make sure we hold everyone accountable and back to supreme court for a second here. i think what is that supreme court were saying.

we have skin in the game here. we are all educated adults and in the process we have to make sure our voting rights and all of our rights are protected but there is an onus on us to be able to speak up if, in fact, you feel as though your civil rights or voting rights have been discriminated against. >> and give us the more modern data. the data used for section 4 was outdated. marjorie, marc morial, he thinks lawmakers will be willing to work on new legislation in a bipartisan fashion that was his intimation there. is he overly optimistic here or is he on target? >> i certainly hope so. it would be nice to see some bipartisanship on something as american as voting. that would be great. my early thoughts is we are seeing a lot of republicans hoping this just goes away in congress and leave it for states to work on and we will see how things -- >> they have been fairly silent on matters so far. >> right. this is the climate we are in now as silence is seen as a good

sign as opposed to people saying voting rights act is horrible we should get rid of it but people who say that. hopefully, people will be able to come together. certainly, if republicans want to learn from the lessons of 2012 and take the results of their autopsy into account, they would be on the side of more voting and collaboration on this. >> silence may be golden is what you're saying here. robert, eric holder has talked about a defining moment for him as he was speaking at the lbj library. he looked up at a tv screen and it was flashing old photos. here is one of them. he saw a picture of lbj signing the voting rights act and to the president's right at that time was his sister-in-law who walked past governor george wallace to integrate the university of alabama in this picture right here. holder didn't know that she had witnessed the signing. he said that seeing that photo was quite pivotal for him. so when you look at this, robert, this is personal for the nation's first black attorney

general and first black president. how does that help their objectives and what they want to get done? does this help them get something done? >> that's an interesting question. first of all, the job of the attorney general is not for it to be personal. to put that aside for a second. however, he is human and he is african-american. you did put in context the first army attorney gener african-american attorney general. clearly this is the mission and cause but the truth this should be a mission and cause for every single eligible person to vote and not discriminated against no matter who you are and no matter what your background is and that is the ideals of the constitution and we are, obviously, striving to be a more perfect union. we are not there yet but regardless of whether you're black or white or gay or straight or a woman, whatever the case may be, you should have the right to vote. you should do so and you should be able to do so in a nonintimidating manner and what we should do regardless whether you're republican or democrat. >> robert, thank you. marjorie, you too. have a good day. a washington, d.c. vandal caught green-handed?

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this is one of the weirder fights out there in cable vision. here is the story basically. time warner saying that cbs demanding too much money compared to some of the other cable operations. okay, fine. time warner then announced it was going to yank cbs off the cable dial in new york, l.a. and dallas and said, no it's not. so it's delayed but they said they were going to do it but they didn't. i guess there is a chance unless they get a deal done that they will. so it's kind of the we're going to do it but not quite yet. nobody, i think, wants to that that neutron step right now but this is one of the more odd-ball fights in the history of cable. >> playing a little bit of chicken there in the cable world, shall we say. you tweeted yesterday bmw, if you like that car, will have an electric car? >> it doesn't like like a bmw and called the i 3. this is a new venture for them. all electric. there it is. your viewers can decide what they think. i kind of like it.

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what did you fine in your research that is concerning? >> former secretary of defense leon panetta said the next pearl harbor may well be a cyberterror attack. i think is right about that. the fact is one of the effective ways we know that the terrorists are looking to do bad things for this country is shut down the electric power grid which would complete chaos for our country. this book is about bad guys and in this cases iranians and

venezuelians. it has great characters and an exciting book. >> i think we are plenty vulnerable. a lot of people working hard on it. take a look at the transmission system for electric power that provides power to all of us. we have 200,000 miles of transmission lines. 3,500 power producers. we have got tens of thousands of these transformers that step up and step down the power. most of them 40 years old and most of them made overseas. everybody, including the national science foundation that has done a study on this says we have got some real vulnerability with respect to the electric power grid. >> how can the united states do something about this? how can we punish countries that might be threatening the united states with cyberattacks? >> we are working hard on that. first of all, you want to try to prevent the attack. you need to be out there looking for these terrorists and hackers and others. there are plenty of examples.

they are attacking our financial institutions every day. there's attacks against corporations and attacks against the defense department. but in this case, to try to take down the central services cyberterrorism that would disrupt electricity or water distribution or any number of other things that would be devastating to our country. >> these are on the level of success which is out there and related to what happened in r n iran. how do you change what is happening there? do you need something cataclysmic to release the polarity that is happening there in the beltway? >> it is the strangest thing in the world. i served 30 years in the congress. i've told everybody that the people i served with, men and women, republicans, democrats, are the finest people i've ever met. i mean, smart, thoughtful, care about their country, love america. and, yet, when they come

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ohio couple together for 20 years. they finally decided to get married this month because husband john arthur is dying of lou gehrig's disease. the pattern had to travel to maryland to marry but came home to a fight the state not willing to recognize their vows until they fought and won recognition in ohio federal court. i spoke with jim earlier and asked him to take me through his legal roller coaster. >> this all happened after our marriage in maryland. when i first met with our attorney and he explained to me that when my husband job john passes away, his ohio death certificate would not list him as married and would not show me or list me as his spouse, it broke high heart. and, at that moment, i realized this isn't something i'm willing to stand for. this isn't something i think any

couple, married legally in another state, should have to stand for. so that was really the moment i decided let's do something, let's try to do something about this. >> i got some video here of you and your husband on your wedding day and i want to ask you. tell me about why this was so important. you talked about the death certificate and now that this has happened, are you and your husband john completely satisfied with that recognition? >> yes and no. we're thrilled that a federal judge ruled that we exist and that we deserve the same protections, the same rights, the same responsibilities as any other opposite sex married couple in the state of ohio who married outside of the state legally. so we're thrilled with that. it validates us as a couple, as a married couple, but we know it

isn't necessarily the end. >> jim, what is your thought about ohio's attorney general who is appealing at this moment the judge's decision? are you concerned about that? >> well, of course, i am. you know, who wouldn't get a ruling like this and hope that it would stand and that the state would step back and, in my opinion, do the right thing and respect us, recognize our marriage, and allow john to spend the rest of his life knowing that our marriage, legal in maryland, is recognized by ohio. so -- >> what would you like to say to the attorney general if he were here? >> i would like to say we are people just like you, mr. dewine. we are no different from your family, your friends. everyone you know who is a married couple, we are no different, except we are a same-sex couple. and john, he will die soon. my husband will pass away soon.

there is no way to go back and make it better for him to say, john, okay, we have now fixed this, you are now legally married. he doesn't have that ability. we can't turn back time. he has limited time. he deserves to die with dignity knowing that our marriage is recognized and valued just like any other opposite sex marriage. >> what has he shared with you about this process and where you're at right now? you did describe how he is doing right now, but what has he shared with you about this? >> he is just thrilled to have that feeling, that, right now, we can call each other husband and -- we do call each other husband. that's what we are. but to have that feeling that we're saying it and it actually means something at this moment in time in the state of ohio, it gives him peace.

he desperately wants to feel like he is doing something to help me to make my life better, safer, whatever adjective you want to use, he wants to do something for me as a thank you for my taking care of him over the past couple of years. and this was something that he could do was to say, i do, jim, you're my husband, and i want our state to recognize it. >> jim obergefell thaur for your time and honesty with your story today. appreciate your time. >> you're welcome, richard. thanks for having me on. >> with that, that wraps up this hour of jansing and co. thomas roberts is up next. good to have you back. welcome back. >> good to be back. i might be a little bit rusty. >> i doubt that. >> coming up this hour the anthony weiner free-fall and he drops to fourth place in a new poll. you know he's in trouble. and eliot spitzer won't stand

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